You must really despise Fergie I assume, on that basis? He builds a team specifically for his own success and jumps ship just as they are all about to collapse. Sounds to me like Fergie must have been a self-indulgent narcissist who doesn't have many feelings for the club. A real shame as I believed the great man when he said himself that he'd built the club from top to bottom to avoid a major drop off when he left, clearly a smokescreen.
Or it could be that RVP, Rooney, Rafael, Vidic, Evans, Jones, Smalling, DDG, Evra, Hernandez, Welbeck, Kagawa, Nani, Carrick and even Ferdinand are all very good player's who under a great managers guidance would flourish. Most of these are also in their twenties which would suggest that Ferguson was in fact preparing for the long term and not one final flourish.
At work I've heard this opinion that our squad is suddenly very poor, my response is always the same:
Who thought a defence of Ivanovich Terry Cahill Azpilicueta would compete on any sort of level this time last season? You have a player who is way past it, an upper mid table plodder, a talented youngster and a powerful full back lacking any technical ability. On paper that looks like a defence that Spurs wouldn't trade for, but guess what? They have comfortably conceded the fewest goals in the league. Their manager has them playing like top class player's, just like Fergie did with Rafael, Evra, Ferdinand and Evans last season.
Great managers motivate (and build a system that encourages) good player's to play great.
